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It’s not 2020 anymore, and thank goodness some Democrats are trying to walk their party back from wokery and toward the political center. In March this column wondered how the weekend opinion editors at the New York Times had gotten away with publishing a reasonable analysis of progressive failings. Now some sage advice has also made it into a weekday edition. Meanwhile on the West Coast, a progressive leftist is continuing her fascinating journey toward rationality. Think back to the radical political and media
environment of the summer of 2020 and imagine reading the following news report about the left-wing Democratic governor of a deep-blue state. Here in June of 2025, Austin De Dios reports for The Oregonian: Gov. Tina Kotek slammed Multnomah County’s Preschool for All tax earlier this month, raising concerns that the burden it places on high-income earners may be prompting them to leave the Portland area. In a letter dated June
10, Kotek told county Chair Jessica Vega Pederson that she was concerned the preschool tax “is not responsive to the economic realities of 2025.” In the letter, first reported by Willamette Week, Kotek suggested reducing the tax rate to ease the burden on wealthy residents, or even pausing it until the county finds a more sustainable solution. Kotek said if changes aren’t made quickly, it could hurt the economic recovery of Oregon’s most populous county. “If Portland does not rebound in the way we think it can, the downstream impacts on our economy will end up costing our
most vulnerable and lowest income Oregonians the most,” she wrote.
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